[at-l] dehydrating pickles

[artduck@yahoo.com (Carol Benel)]

I don't understand why anyone would want a dried
pickle, but okra?!! I have lived in the South a good
many years now.  I have even learned to eat collards,
but smashed okra is more than I want to handle, whole
okra is bad enough.
I just carry little packets of dill relish.  They are
light and last a good long time.


--- Schuyler Stultz <athikerpickle@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >Sweet or dill?  ;-)  Seriously, I'm not an expert
> > on dehydrating
> > things but 
> > >I've never heard of dehydrated pickles.  
> > 
> > Well, I've dehydrated olives and spinach, but...
> > I have reservations about warm, soggy,
> reconstituted
> > pickles...
> > ;-p  Perhaps we should ask Schuyler (lister with a
> > recent trail
> > name of Pickles).
> > 
> > Give Me Chocolate
> 
> heh heh heh I've been catching up on the digests
> from
> the weekend.  You knew'd I'd respond to this sooner
> or
> later though...  ;-)
> 
> I did try dehydrating a pickle chip before my hike
> last year.  I just ate it as was, didn't re-hydrate
> it.  It was basically a little salt chip.  I didn't
> taste any of the vinegar taste (They were dill
> chips)
> I expected.  Now remember, I did _not_ rehydrate it.
> Just ate it dry.
> 
> Each time I could find them last year, I would buy a
> jar of dills (chips, spears, baby dills, whole
> dills),
> drain the juice out, and double ziploc the pickles. 
> They'd keep just fine for a few days, and wouldn't
> be
> _that_ heavy.    
> 
> Now pickled okra.  mmmmmmm that's some good stuff. 
> They'd get squished in my food bag easier than
> standard cucumber pickles would, though.  So, I
> usually ate the entire jar's worth the first night
> out
> of town. 
> 
> mmmmmmmmmmm I'm getting a hankering for some pickles
> just thinking about them.  Gonna have to go by the
> grocery store on the way home tonight now...
> 
> On a really positive note:  My fat boy hip belt has
> finally arrived.  (Note - if you keep eating _off_
> of
> the trail like you did _on_ the trail, you _will_
> gain
> the 40 pounds that you lost back.  Plus 10 more. 
> Trust me, I know from experience...)  So, I just
> need
> a free weekend to get back in the woods.  hmmm no,
> not
> this weekend, helping a friend move, next weekend is
> a
> party at a friends' that I can't miss.  The next
> weekend is a really good friend's wedding.  The next
> weekend is *gasp* free for now...  Now, if I can
> just
> keep it that way until then...
> 
> =====
> --
> Schuyler Stultz
> Former and future AT hiker
> Current Software Developer
> 
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